Halo 3: Always matched against people much better

[Taso]

A few of my friends come over basically every night (we're neighbors) and we play Halo 3 on xbox live (Unit 674 incase you've run into us) We have 4 people on the same screen, and our rank was I guess Seargent grade whatever the highest is for that rank. We ALWAYS get pitted against people with two stars or three stars, always people much higher than us in rank, for the past week. Our team is filled out by people lower in rank than us. Its like this every game, and while we're all pretty darn good at the game, we can't beat these commanders and brigadiers and colonels. Anyone know why we're getting set up this way? It's so frustrating playing against people and getting raped.

[TheCroShow]

don't play in a group of 4

[Taso]

Is that really what it is? This is something new, it was never like that before.

[Freakin]

that rank is just total games played... it does not relate to actual skill like the level numbers do.

The game matches you against similar skill level players, not people who play the same amount as you.

Unfortunately this is unavoidable in social matches where there is no skill level. You guys should seriously be better than them if you're all in the same room with perfect communication.

[Taso]

I would think there is a fairly strong correlation between games played and skill level; as more games are played (increase in rank) peoples skill level rises.

We assumed that it was matching us against similar skill level, but how is the skill level determined? I ask because its always us with 1 or 2 really bad players on our team, versus 5 players as good or better than us (and I think we're all really good). What are "level numbers"?

Thanks

[Dexytp22]

As I've said, and others have before me, rank means nothing. There are guys which huge number of games that just suck dick. People with high skill levels compared to low games played are very good.

[Duke]

@games played vs. skill

There are people on ISC (scrabble) who have played a TON of games (thousands) who are terrible. I'd imagine that the same is true for Halo.

To get good at something you need to practice and hone specific skills, not just play it.

[capone0]

Somebody in 1 thread the Halo matchup system is the best ever, I still prefer the server matchup system that HL2 and other PC games have. Yes it's hard to have your own personal server but that's not really a huge issue for most people.

[tarheeljks]

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Yes it's hard to have your own personal server but that's not really a huge issue for most people.

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i think it's a huge hassle for the majority of people who play xbox live

[AceLuby]

Social matches just find 4 people to play against your 4 people and doesn't take anything else into consideration. They are supposed to be for warm-up or when you have multiple people playing on the same account, but some people use it to pwn because they are level 45 or whatever and want to beat everyone by 20.